Star Trek: Houston
| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Star Trek: Houston |
| Dates: | March 12-14, 1976, continued as a Trek/Comics con to at least 1983 |
| Frequency: | once |
| Location: | Sheraton-Houston Hotel |
| Type: | for-profit, celebrity guests |
| Focus: | Star Trek, NASA |
| Organization: | |
| Founder: | Jim Van Hise, possibly G.B. Love |
| Founding Date: | |
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Star Trek: Houston was Star Trek con held in Houston, Texas. It was billed as "The Largest Star Trek Convention Ever Held in the Southwest!"
This con is not the same thing as Houstoncon.
1976
Guest of Honor were James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and Jesco von Puttkamer.
It had guest and fan panels, twenty Star Trek episodes, a SF film room, "NASA films, a masquerade, and a dealer's room.
The door prize was a painting by Morris Dollens, which was printed on the back of the souvenir program book.
Contents of the Con Souvenir Book: 1976
"Much of the material in this publication was donated by the RB-CC published by Jim Van Hise."
- inside front cover, black and white illo by Don Rosa, portrays Kirk and Spock coming back through the Guardian of Forever with scads of comic books and pulp zines
- An Evening With Gene Roddenberry, article by Jim Van Hise, includes photos (5)
- An Interview with James Doohan (5)
- The Cage/The Menagerie: A Comparison, an article by Jim Van Hise (7)
- a full-page ad for Trek (Special Spock Issue) (10)
- The Tholian Web, many high-quality stills and screen shots with much commentary by an unknown fan (11)
- Where No Man Has Gone Before, article by Jim Van Hise about the show (23)
- An Interview with Walter Koenig (26)
- Star Trek: Beyond the Pilots, article by Jim Van Hise (28)
- half-page fan art by Joyce Huser
- inside back cover, black and white illo of Enterprise in space heading for a giant germ-planet thing, the artist is credited on it as "SF" (Stephen Fabian)
- back cover, color illo of The Big E in a space battle with a Klingon warship
Images from the Con Souvenir Book: 1976
back cover, Morris Scott Dollins
inside back cover, Stephen Fabian
inside front cover, Don Rosa
a photo of the cast that appears to be have been taken with a wax/cardboard image of James Kirk
from the "The Tholian Web" article
1983
Star Trek Houston was a Trek/comics con held June 2-5, 1983 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston.
Leonard Nimoy was a guest of honor. There are some comments from Nimoy's talk transcribed in Renaissance: A Study of His Art #3. At that con, Nimoy talked about how he wanted the role of Lestat in Interview with a Vampire.